Tag: data
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GDPR What It Means To You
GDPR goes into full operations mode this Friday (25th May 2018). By now, if you have an email address, you have probably been sent emails recently from the large amount of companies that have interacted with your email over the years. Have companies been contacting you over the last few months asking if you are…
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Unwanted Snooping – Tips To Prevent It!
Unwanted snooping is a real thing. Everyone has had to catch up quickly since Facebook’s recent data sharing incident. Whether we like it or not, out data is valuable. It is for this reason we thought a few tips towards protecting your valuable date were in order. Encrypt Encryption is not something to be afraid…
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Netflix Launches It’s Own Internet Speed Checker – FAST.com
It’s quite possible that Netflix may finally be fed up with the volume of calls regarding its online streaming service not performing correctly on certain smart devices – or that’s what we’d suspect based on the new website it’s set up to track broadband data speeds and present them in relation to the Netflix minimum requirements.…
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Popular Adult Website Offers $25K to Viewers Who Find Security Bugs
Popular adult video resource PornHub is offering up to $25,000 to viewers who find security vulnerabilities in its website.The bounties for finding a bug in the streaming site’s defence starts at $50 a pop, with the top money shot awarded for spotting a major boob – making it a nice little earner for those who…
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Apple Stands up to U.S Government to Protect iPhone User’s Privacy
Now I’m not an Apple product user myself, and honestly I’ve never bought into the hype. To each their own. That said, I, like many others this morning have been rather surprised/impressed by this honest statement to Apple customer’s by the company’s CEO Tim Cook which doubles as a ballsy comeback to the U.S Government…
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How to Protect Your RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) and Personal Data
In this day and age, we seem to be constantly hearing about data being lost, sold, traded and worst of all, stolen. Unfortunately due to our wishes to be more connected (iot) all of the time, it makes the job for thieves a little easier. Now, if you are not security/technically savvy, then you probably…
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Nintendo Reveals Pokemon Go App Game
The trailer is somewhat intense, but we can confirm that somehow Nintendo is bringing an augmented reality Pokemon title to smartphones that basically overlays your favorite digital monsters over real life using your phone’s camera – and yes, you can battle, trade, catch and do just about every other thing we’ve come to expect from…
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Browser Flaw Shows The Country You’re In
One of the big problems cited by critics of popular sites online is just how much of your location information is broadcast out online. Not only do mobile phones and social media apps leak your location to the internet, but also websites do too, according to new research out of the University of Singapore. The…
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IBM’s Watson To Work With Apple Watch
Earlier this week we reported on IBM’s Watson supercomputer – the thinking engine that has just released its own cookbook. When out of the kitchen, Watson also manages to find the nanoseconds of time from its busy schedule to work with health professionals analyzing genetic sequences to build personalized medicines for patients. A key step…
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Facebook Data Firehose Goes Public
Social media has a unique opportunity to supply businesses with information on trending products and services, as well as what the general public are griping about currently. The information created by you on me on social media is already being used, at least via Twitter, through a system known as the ‘firehose’ – a secure…
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How to Access SD Card Data on Android Devices
A micro SD card is a valuable tool which can boost the storage capacity of your Android smartphone or tablet for containing all those apps, games and photo memories. Dependant on your make and model this can offer from 16GB up to 128GB of additional storage on gadgets like the Sony Xperia Z3 and Samsung…
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Microsoft Adopts Cloud Privacy Standard
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Microsoft have laid down a policy for their cloud network which they hope will make it easier for users to trust them when they upload their personal files to online services from the company. An atmosphere of mistrust is floating around technology and online services with regard to personal information of late, as big tech and…